Hey folks, I’m after organising a fundraiser for the charity GOAL, which will be taking place in the Twisted Pepper on Thursday 4th February. Hope to see you there! Here’s the press release: Rockers, DJs and Bakers get together to raise money for Haiti A fundraising gig and bake sale will take place in Dublin’s…

I have a review of the new Midlake album – which is rather excellent – on State. Read it here: http://www.state.ie/2010/01/album-reviews/midlake-the-courage-of-others/ I was very, very lucky to do an interview with lead singer Tim on Friday – if you’d told me that back in 2006 when I listened to their CD on the bus to…

Ah, another year, another Choice Music Prize shortlist….and another chance for fans of Irish alternative music to go bleedin’ mental that their favourite band wasn’t on the list. Last year, it was the inclusion of Dublin pop act The Script that got everyone’s underwear in a twist – and with good reason; this year, it’s…

Cut through the boredom that comes with being trapped indoors thanks to this abysmal (well, beautiful, but treacherous!) weather by listening to this fantastic new track by The Knife (via Stereogum) You know when a band is so totally awesome that you hope and pray each time they bring out a new track that they…

Just catching up on the playlists for the last few shows – the last two shows were repeats because of Christmas time busy-ness, but now things are all back on track for Sweet Oblivion in 2010, have no fear… On 2nd December I started off crazy with some hip hop, and then got a bit…

Many of you will have heard/read by now that the independent record store Plugd Records in Cork is closing down.  As Jim and Albert of Plugd said themselves: After 8 years here it was a difficult decision to make, but it has become increasingly obvious over the last while that things are not working out…

Stone Throwing Youths – Too Much Information Stone Throwing Youths is the brainchild of young Cork musician Brian Casey, who for a young guy has oodles of talent. He’s a big fan of bands from the grunge era as you can hear from this track – but he doesn’t ape the work of his heroes,…

On Arena with Sean Rocks just after the 8pm news. I’ll be talking about two new album releases of the pop variety…you can listen online here. x

The Guardian has a new interview with Liz Fraser – wow! It’s a really interesting, raw and honest interview with her – am impressed with both the interviewer asking those questions and her being willing to answer them. Fraser is still furious with herself for staying in the band for two years (and another album,…

Sorry that this blog post is a week late! Proof that I need to write up these playlists every Wednesday night or they’ll get swallowed up by work in the following week…anyway, this week’s show started off Irish and loud, went a bit shoegazey in the middle and ended on a beautiful note. As always,…